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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Last week, I received an invitation from my finance team members to join their pot luck lunch on Monday in the office in celebration of Raya Adilfitri (Muslim New Year).I happily accepted the invitation and even offered to bring one of my specialties to support their function. But later I realized that I would not have time to prepare fancy dishes in the morning, as I started work as early as 8am.

And so I struggled to think of what party food that could be easily prepared in advance, best the night before and its taste could be sustained when brought to the office the next morning for reheating or served cold during lunch time.

After cracking my head, I concluded dessert is the best answer. Yes, dessert could be prepared in advance and easily stored up to a day or two without compromising its quality. I came out with this simple no bake cheesecake, which was just ideal for this function.

Again, this recipe was shared by Helen in Auckland. I found this simple cheesecake recipe so versatile that different variation of cheesecake look can be produced by merely changing the toppings. Her original topping called for fruit jam; however I was no fruit jam lover. I ended up with gelatin lime topping instead as I wanted to go in line with the Muslim’s Raya colour – green. I used the juice of half a lime and one to two drops of green food coloring to come up with the lime green topping cheesecake J

The topping was not well turned-out as I expected to have a smooth layer of jelly looking topping. This might due to overnight chilled effect in freezer.

Nevertheless, the cake received great comments from my colleagues. I was overly flattered when one of my colleagues came to me the next day and wanted to place an order to make this cheesecake as birthday cake for his little nephew. He told me that he brought back a piece to his nephew and he loved it so much and asked to have the same for his birthday! J

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Highlights of office lunch sharing

NO BAKE CHEESECAKE

INGREDIENTS A (BASE)

150g OreoChocolate cookies

60g butter, melted

INGREDIENTS B ( FILLINGS)

250g cream Cheese

Few drops of lemon/lime juice

300ml fresh cream

½ cup caster sugar

3 tsp. gelatin

½ cup hot water

INGREDIENTS C ( TOPPING)

1tsp gelatin

100ml hot water

2-3 tsps. fruit jam (or replace by other topping to your preference)

METHOD :

1.Put all the Oreo biscuits into a plastic food bag and crushed into fine crumbs.

2.Melt the butter and add to biscuits crumbs to form moist biscuits mixture.

3.Place a round greaseproof paper in the base of a 20cm/9in spring form cake.

4.Pour the crumbs mixture into the bottom of the cake tin. Using the back of a spoon, gently smooth and level to form moist biscuits base of the cheesecake.

5.Chill in the fridge for at least 10 minutes while making the filling.

6.Pour fresh cream and caster sugar together in a bowl and use hand mixer to beat until you have creamy mixture.

7.Use separate bowl and blend cream cheese with few drops of lemon/lime juice. ( I just use half a lime)

8.Use half cup of hot water and stir to dissolve 3 tsp. of gelatin, set aside to cool before use.

9.Combine both creams with cool gelatin mixture and use hand mixer to blend until smooth creamy mixture.

10.Pour and spread mixture evenly on top of the chilled biscuit mixture.

11.Chill in the fridge for at least 3 hours.

12.For topping, dissolve 100ml hot water with 1tsp. gelatin and add in fruit jam and stir well and set aside.

13.Once fruit gelatin cool down, pour on top on cheese cake and leave to set in the fridge for another hour until the topping has set.

Dear YinI am a working mother of 2 girls who is now starting to discovery culinary art. Stumbled upon your blog by accident and I have been an avid follower ever since. Tried your no bake cheese cake recipe for the second time now and I should say my family loves it so much! Just would like to say a BIG thank you for sharing this. Keep cooking and baking!